America's Love Affair With Wine Continues

FRED TASKERTHE MIAMI HERALD

Tuesday

Apr 23, 2013 at 9:40 AM

Study offers some interesting information.

America’s love affair with wine continues. We’re pulling further ahead of Europe, but seeing increased competition from China. That’s the conclusion of a new study by Vinexpo, the world’s most influential wine exhibition, which takes place June 16-22 in Bordeaux France.Here’s what the study found:United States sippers reaffirmed our country’s role as the world’s No. 1 wine consumer, drinking 3.8 billion bottles in 2011, up 4.5 percent from 2010. We will sip an additional two bottles each a year by 2016, the study says.We love Champagnes and sparkling wines, with consumption up 18 percent between 2007 and 2011.We still like white wines, with consumption up 10 percent since 2007 — led by pinot grigio, sauvignon blanc and moscato, with chardonnay slumping. White wines make up 40 percent of the wines we drink.Sixty percent of the wines Americans drink are red, although we lost to China our position as the world’s third-largest red wine consumer after France and Italy. In spirits, worldwide vodka consumption was down 5 percent, brandy up 23 percent.

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